Ku Klux Klan
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National
‘Mississippi Burning’ KKK leader Killen dies in prison at 92
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Edgar Ray Killen, a 1960s Ku Klux Klan leader who was convicted decades later in the…
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Cross-burning victims wonder why priest is confessing now
BY MATTHEW BARAKAT WASHINGTON (AP) — Phillip and Barbara Butler hadn’t given much thought to the man who burned a…
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1979 Klan-Nazi attack survivor hopes for a ‘justice river’
BY MARTHA WAGGONER GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — The Rev. Nelson Johnson needs no reminders of the massacre of five of…
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Politics
McConnell slams bigotry as GOP grapples with Trump’s remarks
BY STEVE PEOPLES and JONATHAN LEMIRE NEW YORK (AP) — His party in turmoil, the Senate’s top Republican on Wednesday…
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National
Trump’s denouncement disappoints, angers white nationalists
BY MICHAEL KUNZELMAN President Donald Trump’s condemnation of hate groups — two days after his initially equivocal response to a…
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Political violence ‘didn’t come out of nowhere’
BY CLAIRE GALOFARO The videos that rolled across the television screen were startling: Americans beating each other with clubs and…
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3 dead, dozens injured, amid violent white nationalist rally
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — A car rammed into a crowd of protesters and a state police helicopter crashed into the…
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Former Klan Grand Dragon to MLK’s daughter: I’m sorry
BY BILL BARROW ATLANTA (AP) — Scott Shepherd didn’t fire the shot that killed Martin Luther King Jr., but…
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Politics
Men in KKK costumes disrupt Sessions confirmation hearing
WASHINGTON (AP) — Protesters disrupted Sen. Jeff Sessions’ confirmation hearing for attorney general on Tuesday, including two men wearing…
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Police end NAACP sit-in against attorney general nominee
BY KIM CHANDLER MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The national president of the NAACP and five others were arrested after…
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